Nitpicking, but at what point do we start calling it race pseudoscience?

“Hating Black People” would be a more fitting name.

Not to mention, these discussions partially enabled the rise of technofascism, making Yudkowsky and friends outright complicit in this shit.

Found a primo response in the replies:

Hot take: A lying machine that destroys your intelligence and mental health is unsafe for everyone, mentally ill or no

And sadly, it wasn’t somebody’s porn alt.

Wow Trannyporno really put that depraved woman in her place

That can’t be a real username. That fucking can’t.

Ran across a BlueSky thread that fits this perfectly - its a social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education.

Here’s my first shot at it:

“Imagine if the stereotypical high-school nerd became a supervillain.”

>proceed to punt this goal decades or centuries by helping to justify a tech bubble which consumes tons of R&D resources for no apparent benefit and will bind further resources in the future to adapt to an aggravated climate crisis, and also inspiring a slew of technofascists too dumb to tell the difference between tech that benefits mankind and tech that exploits and oppresses

Not to mention, the aforementioned bubble’s given us shit like some jackasses’ ghoulish (and failed) attempt to “revive” George Carlin, attempts to automate end-of-life care, “AI seances” designed to scam the grieving, and God-knows-what-else.

So, the very concept of “defeating death with technology” has probably been thoroughly discredited as impossible, inherently ghoulish, or a combo of the two.

It is technically correct to call Yud a “renowned AI researcher”, but saying someone’s renowned in a pseudoscience such as AI is hardly singing their praises.

I tagged it NSFW because the previous thread was tagged NSFW.

I didn’t mean to link something else, I just mangled my description. Thanks for catching it.

A piece like this would dovetail nicely with Baldur’s deep-dive into AI’s link to esoteric fascism. Hope to see it get finished.

I was tempted to write this up for Pivot but fuck giving that blog any sort of publicity.

On the one hand, I can see you not wanting to give the fucker attention, on the other hand, AI’s indelible link to fascism is something which needs to be hammered home and shit like this gives you a golden opportunity to do it.